Changing And Recovering The Nam Cli Passwords - Cisco Network Analysis Module 6000 Installation And Configuration Manual

Administering the NAM
At the password prompt, enter the password for the account. The default password for the root account
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is "root," and the default password for the guest account is "guest."
Password:
After a successful login, the command-line prompt appears as follows:
Network Analysis Module (WS-X6380-NAM) Console, 2.1(1a)
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001 Cisco Systems, Inc.
WARNING! Default password has not been changed!
root@localhost#

Changing and Recovering the NAM CLI Passwords

You can use these methods to change and recover passwords:
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If you have not changed the password from the factory-set default password, a warning message appears
when you log into the NAM.
New passwords must be at least six characters in length, and may include uppercase and lowercase
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letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.
To change a password, follow these steps while logged into the NAM as root:
Enter this command:
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root@localhost# password [username]
Step 2 Enter the new password:
Changing password for user root
New UNIX password:
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Use a Telnet connection to the NAM and CLI.
You can configure, change, and recover root and guest passwords:
– To change the password, use a Telnet connection to the NAM, then use the password command
to change the password.
To recover the password, use the Telnet connection to the supervisor engine, then use the clear
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module password module command.
Use NAM Traffic Analyzer n on the local database.
You create the initial NAM Traffic Analyzer application user with the CLI. After starting NAM
Traffic Analyzer, you can establish and edit additional user passwords. You use NAM Traffic
Analyzer or the TACACS+ server to change passwords as follows:
As the NAM Traffic Analyzer application administrator, you can reset passwords.
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If the administrator is unknown, you can use the CLI to remove the local web user database from
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the web database with the rmwebusers command.
Use the instructions in the TACACS+ server documentation.
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